"Where the Wild Things"

Family Tree

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Despite their early associations with freak-folk and their recent voyage toward intergalactic bravado, Akron/Family have certainly flirted with righteous dosages of heaviness during the last decade. On "MBF", for instance, they blasted through walls of Bastard-sized noise; on a 2005 split with Angels of Light, they teasingly crept toward stillness, only to catapult into blasts of distortion-and-volume damage. But none of that adequately presages "Where the Wild Things," the glorious wrecking ball that leads No Recognize, the debut EP from frontman Seth Olinsky as Cy Dune.

These three intense minutes suggest Japanese freaks Fushitsusha playing pop-punk with equal-parts precision and madness. This is the most urgent missive to arrive from any member of the Family in years. The band’s label, Family Tree Records, will release No Recognize digitally on February 5 (on vinyl March 5), pairing a download code with an LP-sized piece of custom art made in the Arizona desert by shooting spray paint cans against a canvas.